Louis Warren Hill, second son of James J. Hill, is sued by seven of his nine siblings over his inheritance of the family's North Oaks farm and Burlington Northern railroad bonds totaling $750,000, all a gift from his mother, Mary T. Hill, shortly before her death. The "Allied Siblings" allege that their mother was not of sound mind and that Louis had intimidated her into bequeathing the legacy.

Dr. Justus Ohage performs the nation's first successful gall bladder surgery, at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul.

In the first State Baseball Championship, the St. Paul North Stars beat the Hastings Vermillion 43-35.

Photographer Edward A. Bromley is born in New Haven, Connecticut. Considered the first regular newspaper staff photographer in the United States, Bromley would be connected with the Minneapolis Journal and the Minneapolis Times and would emphasize the importance of photographs in illustrating news stories and chronicling historic events. He died in 1925.

In St. Peter, Methodist minister Edward Eggleston marries Lizzie Snider. Eggleston is best remembered for his novel The Hoosier School-Master, set in Indiana, but a less popular novel, The Mystery of Metropolisville, deals with land speculation in Minnesota in the 1850s.

James Jenkins and his son Steven Jenkins (later Steven Jenkins Anderson) lure Ruthton bankers Rudy Blythe and Toby Thulin to their ten-acre Pipestone County dairy farm, which had been repossessed by Blythe's bank, and kill them both. The murders spur a nationwide manhunt, ending with Steven Jenkins's surrender and James Jenkins's suicide in northern Texas. Steven Jenkins, barely eighteen years old at the time, professes his innocence but is convicted of the murders. Seventeen years later he admitted in an interview that he had killed the bankers.

St. Paul's first McDonald's restaurant opens on Fort Road. A hamburger costs fifteen cents. The St. Paul franchise was not, however, the first McDonald's in the state of Minnesota; one had opened at 2075 North Snelling Avenue in Roseville in 1957.

Dakota leaders sign a treaty in Washington, DC, selling their lands east of the Mississippi River for about $500,000 in cash and goods. This treaty, along with the Ojibwe treaty of the same year, opens eastern Minnesota to settler colonists. Representatives for the United States are Joel R.

The final game at Nicollet Park: the Minneapolis Millers play the Rochester Redwings, winning the Junior World Series 9-4. After Nicollet Park was demolished, the Millers' home would be Metropolitan Stadium until the Minnesota Twins replaced them.

Joan Growe is born in Minneapolis. She served as Minnesota's secretary of state from 1975 to 1998, the first woman elected to statewide office without first having been appointed. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she championed voter and election reform, including such programs as vote by mail and motor voter registration.